Complete!
Geez, one might think yum actually removed it, but in this case, it lied.
Trying to pull the ol'e sliparoo on me, ehh? I tried running yum remove
as above again and the same exact removal messages appears again and
again - so, it is NOT removed! So, I tried another way:
# apt-get --fix-broken install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
fmt-ptrn-java#1.3.17-1.fc9 (1.3.17-1.fc9)
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 removed and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 11.0kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Committing changes...

Done.
W: Some errors occurred while running transaction
Ah! Well at least it is telling me there is a problem in attempting
to remove this package... Well apt-get cannot remove this package
so, I tried using rpm directly:
# rpm -e fmt-ptrn-java-1.3.17-1.fc9.i386
/sbin/ldconfig: relative path `1' used to build cache